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I'm a little late to this thread, but I assure you they have and will continue to have scattered incidents of unknowingly selling bootleg products directly from the retailer (In this case, Amazon) and not from 3rd party sellers, This includes media such as DVD's. The company is simply too large and there's too much product out there to prevent it 100%. Mistakes happen.
For one example that wasn't a DVD that I've personally encounterd, I recently purchased a self contained videogame console, known as a "plug & play", that contains 100 Nintendo titles from the 1980s in a self contained controller from the store shelf of a well known national drugstore chain that was carrying it in their toy department (Of course, at the time, I didn't know it contained licensed material that they didn't have the right to sell).
None of these games contained on this unit were licensed from the companies that developed them, such as Nintendo, Konami, and Capcom. All 100 titles were being illegally used and hadn't been licensed from the companies that owned the rights to them. The product was also carried by a well known national discount retailer in their over 1000 locations nationwide and online before being pulled when it was made known to them after carrying it for weeks.
Mistakes happen and things slip through by mistake sometimes. Not everyone working at Amazon involved in purchasing and stocking product is as well versed in the product lines they're carrying as some of you are here about DVD and Blu-Ray releases.
I'm not sure why you think they don't make mistakes, but they do. Every national retailer does.
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Originally Posted by Jon Martin
They don't KNOWINGLY sell bootleg titles, but with hundreds of DVDs being released each week, they can't check all of them. They are given product by a company that they believe is legit, and list it as if they were.
There is one company (whose name I won't mention that specializes in 80's films) that has hundreds of titles on Amazon, all bootlegs, yet Amazon lists them as if they are real releases. And not through third party, they are shipped and sold from Amazon. |
